Maayan Silver
News ReporterMaayan Silver has been a reporter with WUWM’s News Team since 2018. She joined WUWM as a volunteer at Lake Effect in 2016, while she was a practicing criminal defense attorney.
She believes everyone has an interesting story to share and is driven to get people from all backgrounds and perspectives on the air. Her work has been featured on Morning Edition, All Things Considered, Weekend Edition, Here and Now, and she’s been a guest with BBC Newshour, On Point, The Takeaway and the NPR Politics Podcast. She was part of NPR’s Political Reporting Partnership during the 2020 presidential election.
Maayan has a musical spirit, loves learning about different cultures and trying new foods, and has lapsed on her goal of making Milwaukee’s best hummus.
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Voters in the key swing state of Wisconsin talk about what’s keeping them up at night when they think of politics and the November election.
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North Avenue cuts through a wide swath of neighborhoods that both Republicans and Democrats want to turn out to vote this year.
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Voters along the same street stretching from Milwaukee to the suburbs talk about what's swaying them -- and what's not -- in the critical swing state of Wisconsin.
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North Avenue in Milwaukee cuts through just about every major Wisconsin voting bloc. Republican former Gov. Scott Walker and Democratic strategist Thad Nation talk about its political importance.
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NPR's Ari Shapiro and WUWM's Maayan Silver spoke with voters along a 15-mile road that cuts through Milwaukee area segregated neighborhoods as election season continues in this crucial swing state.
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In Wisconsin, a growing number of conservatives who dislike Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump are thinking about whether they could actually vote for Democratic Vice President Kamala Harris.
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In Wisconsin, some conservative voters voice their discontent with Republican nominee Donald Trump.
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RFK Jr. left the race and is asking to be taken off the ballot in Wisconsin; Biden, Vance, Harris, Walz, and their surrogates are all crisscrossing the state. What's it going to take to win here?
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Left-leaning Wisconsin voters say they're more hopeful with Harris and Walz at the top of the ticketWUWM hosted its third voter roundtable with five Milwaukee-area residents who plan to vote for Vice President Kamala Harris in the presidential election. Wisconsin is likely to be a crucial swing state in the 2024 presidential election.
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Four years after the police shooting of Jacob Blake put Kenosha, Wisconsin in the national spotlight over racial justice in policing, the Trump campaign is still courting voters there on the issue of law-and-order. The message is resonating with some voters but not others.